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‘A sea of shock’: Beirut hospital struggles to cope with influx of casualties

Alain Kortbaoui, the director of Emergency Medicine at Lebanon’s Geitaoui Hospital in Beirut, described the state of the patients they were treating as one of profound disorientation. He revealed to Al Jazeera that the hospital was currently caring for four individuals with severe injuries sustained during Israel’s extensive military operations across Lebanon.

According to Kortbaoui, none of these patients were fully aware of their surroundings, with one individual, who had suffered a crushing blow when two floors collapsed on him, only just beginning to regain consciousness. This patient, however, had no recollection of the events that led to his hospitalization.

Kortbaoui further stated that the patients they were treating were still trying to grasp the situation, with one severely injured woman believed to have sustained a brain injury. As a result, medical staff were conducting urgent scans in collaboration with a neurosurgeon to determine the full extent of her injuries.

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